I ANCESTRAL/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

Bernice LADD HARRELSON <BLADDH@aol.com> shares with us her ancestral sketch and welcomes addition information in regard to her line.

GENERATION I

Jacob GOOD, born about 1740 in Bowmansville, PA, married Frances Groh (*1740), and they had twelve children:

1. Barbara GOOD
2. Mary GOOD (*May 13, 1777) m. Jacob Beery (Beiri)
3. John W. GOOD (*1780) m. Mariah Neiswander
4. Daniel J. GOOD (*Nov. 16, 1781) m. Magdalene Whitmore
5. Joseph C. GOOD (* Dec. 2, 1783) m. Magdalena Gamel/Campbell
6. David GOOD (*Dec. 4, 1786) m. Barbara Neiswander
7. Elisabeth GOOD (*Jan. 10, 1789) m. Henry Rhodes
8. Catherine GOOD (*Sep. 25, 1792) m. John Coffman
9.Abraham GOOD (* aft 1795)
10. Martin GOOD (*c. 1797)
11. Peter GOOD (*c. 1799)
12. Jacob GOOD (*c. 1801).
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GENERATION II

Joseph C. GOOD [#5 above] married Magdalena Gamel/Campbell  (*Mar. 11, 1785) and the family moved from Rockingham, VA to Ohio about 1811. They had thirteen children:
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1. Esther GOOD (* 1807) m. Rev. Henry Brenneman
2. David GOOD (* May 5, 1809) m. Susanna Beery & Lydia Beery
3. Henry GOOD (*July 5,1810) m. Rebecca Beery
4. John S. GOOD (*Oct. 20, 1811) m. Sarah Grimm & Magdalene Hamm
5. Elizabeth GOOD(*c. 1813) m. Rev. Christian Culp
6. Joseph C. GOOD (*Nov. 3, 1816) m. Ruth Roberts
7. Sophia GOOD (*Mar.23, 1817) m. Bishop John M. Brenneman
8. Daniel GOOD (*c. 1819) m. Sarah Gaster & Catherine Smoke
9. Noah GOOD (*Aug. 18, 1820) m. Frances Culp
10. Abraham GOOD (*Apr. 4, 1822) m. Lucinda Friesner & Frances B. Blosser
11. Samuel GOOD (*1824) m. Elizabeth Miller
12. Anna GOOD (*Oct. 23, 1826) m. Jacob Horning
13. Jacob GOOD (*1828) m. Anna Blosser.
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GENERATION III

Bishop John S. GOOD (#4 above) married twice, first Sara Grimm (*1834) of Page County, IA, and then Magdalene Hamm in 1874. There were eleven children from the first marriage, , all born in Ohio:
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1. Simon GOOD (*Dec. 17, 1834)
2. Jose GOOD (*Oct. 10, 1835)
3. Phebe GOOD (*Feb. 8, 1837) m. John Chambers
4. Magdalena GOOD (*July 28, 1838) m. Henry L. Hoffman
5. Jacob G. GOOD (*Mar. 9, 1840) m. Rosina Frank
6. Andrew GOOD (*Dec. 5, 1841) m. Ann Marie Engle & Susan Snively
7. David L. GOOD (* Oct. 22, 1843) m. Mary Cordelia Arminda Grove
8. Delilah GOOD (*Aug. 3, 1845) m. Charles Smith Ladd
9. Joseph G. GOOD (*Mar. 4, 1847) m. Anna Brenneman
10. Margaret GOOD (*Dec. 16, 1848) m. George Markwell
11. Sarah A. GOOD (*May 12, 1851) m. Rev. John Markwell & J. F. Bates.

[Ed. Bernice LADD HARRELSON descends from Delilah GOOD (#8 above). She has been in contact with several cousins descending from Joseph C. GOOD (2nd generation), and would  love to hear from more.]